POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Suggestions needed : Re: Suggestions needed Server Time
31 Jul 2024 10:24:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Suggestions needed  
From: Kenneth
Date: 28 Apr 2010 03:50:00
Message: <web.4bd7e8295bb1be65ae92d9930@news.povray.org>
Alain <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote:

> You can use .x .y .z .red .green or .blue without any problem in this
> case. You can do that because your pigment is black and white.
> Using a single channel is faster, you only fetch that channel instread
> of geting all 3 channels and doing a ponderated average.
>

You're right. I keep forgetting that alternative. (You had mentioned it before
in another post.) The gradient x/y/z pigments are indeed grayscale (or at least
the *same* colors across all three channels.)

Ken


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